The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07
PROGRESS AT WALTHAM.

determined to maintain the proud posi-
ton they have long occupied among
manufacturers of pocket timepieces.
During an interview the other day with
representative of Robbins q Apple
ton, he said: ave have a number Of
novelties that ought to be worthy of
your attention, and in fact of the trade
in general. During the year 1886, VIC
have had a steadily-increasng demand
for our better class of goods. This is
owing to the very great improvements
which have therein been accomplished.
For instance, all the watches fitted with
our patent Breguet hair-spring have
met with special favor because of the
great amount of extra quality which
this handspring imparts to the goods.
The company seem to have pursued
the policy of not increasing the guam
tity of their lowest-priced goods, but
rather of putting the better and
medium grades at figures which
bring them within the reach of
very limited purse, and en-.
able dealers with very limited capital
to lay in an assorted stock of good
quality goods of great popularity.
The B artlett watch may be taken as an
example. Here's movement equipped
with all that can possibly be put into a
watch to make it a thorough time
keeper, and its price is fabulously low.
An English matchmaker recently took
one of these Bartlett movements of the
new model, examined it carefully, and
quietly put it together with the remark:
This movement is worth Co. Yet 1t
is sold for nearly as many dollars.
ave have turned out some very fine
work in the way of identifying the APP
pearance of the watch, both in nickel
frosting and raging, which never had
been done before These processes
permit an almost endless variety of de-
signs and patterns which adapt them
selves beautifully to the shape of the
watch-plate.
The chief novelty with which the
company start out this year is their one
size watch-the smallest and thinnest,
as well as the finest, ladies' watch ever
made in this country. The diameter
gifts dial is just the size of half dollar
piece. The train is made Of gold; the
iewel-settings likewise; and the jewels
themselves are faultless rubies of the
darkest color. The watch is thorough
ly adjusted, and capable of the very
finest time-keepng Its price is very
moderate-indeed, considering the eX--
ira fine quality and superior finish, it is
wonderfully low.
Another novelty is the Waltham
Minute Register Chronograph' This
watch is so constructed as to show by
means of a diminutive dial-bit and
special hand the minutes during which
the long ffth-second hand revolves.
Here my informant exhibited the Oper-
alton of the chronograph. The long
fifth-second hand and the small special
hand are normally stationary at II, or
{ zero. By pressing the stem, both hands
are started, the small hand recording
successive minutes up to fifteen. At
, any moment both hands may be
I stopped, and another motion sends
= them back to zero This device is
especially useful to sportsmen, scien-
5 fists, physicians, engineers, machinists,
3 etc. The same attachment is applied
? to the Waltham split seconds chrono-
graph, making it the most durable
watch of the kind, inasmuch as the
mechanism is very simple and almost
indestructible. The Waltham chrono-
graph is made in the first place to be
Il an accurate time-keeper, built on the
. model of the companys finest 14-size
a watch On top of this movement, and
. without complicating it, the chrOno-
' graph attachment is fastened, thus
: clearly exposing to view the entire
9 chronograph apparatus. The plainest
e country matchmaker can take the at
e tachment apart and set it together
, again without trouble. A Swiss watch
5 maker recently remarked that nobody
9 would have dreamed ten years ago that
g the Americans would ever be able to
q make any so-called complicated time
: keepers, and that they really do not
. make them; but they obtained watches
y that had the most exact and minute
t. time-keeping on much simpler con-
II struction. AS a consequence, the Amer
! lean watch is more reliable, less costly
to produce, and certainly without eX-
3, pense to keep in thorough-going order.
II THE company have added several
$ grades of six size watches to their list,
u which they will be able to put on the
:, market in the neighborhood of March
i l. This will make eight different quail
n tiles of six-size movements, which,
4. with the various cases-hunting and
G. open-face, gold, silver and aluminine-
e, with an almost endless variety Of
Ie ladies' Watches affords arrange OF chaicC
Is from the cheapest limit at which Il golC
1t watch may beexpected to the diamond
g studded watch for the millionaire s wife
a During the year 1886 we have adde,
g two new grades of siXteen-size watches
.. a which really make that part of the as
70 sortment a surprising one. Sixteen
a size watches of the Waltham pattern
,e have always been considered yer.
1oo,. ,votnb 70 m q 10. but IL seems tha